First reports of the attacks came at around 17:53 MSK, and by 18:31 MSK oil was already trading +4%. The entire impulse took less than an hour.
The reason is geopolitics, not the balance of supply and demand. Saudi Arabia remains a key exporter, so any threat to its infrastructure is immediately priced in as a risk premium. Such news isn't on the calendar — it arrives suddenly, and the range expands within minutes.
Do you catch such moves on your account?
Geopolitics delivers sharp impulses, but the size of the result is capped by the size of the account. Prop Trading is a model where a trader passes a Challenge and trades with a Prop company's account without comparable personal capital.